…Verbascum nigrum or Dark Mullein has appeared here and there in what was bare earth a year ago. It survived the grass cut five to six weeks ago and has…

…chinensis var. rubrum ‘Pearl’ full out in July? Odd. Loropetalum chinensis var. rubrum ‘Pearl’ Loropetalum chinensis var. rubrum ‘Pearl’ Indigofera howellii has a very dark pink flower – almost reddish….

…seed heads and already dark red leaves. Euonymus oxyphyllus (BSWJ 10815) Viburnum hoanglienense covered in reddening seed heads. Viburnum hoanglienense First flowers showing colour on Schima superba. Cornus Schima superba…

…solandri ‘Aurea’ Olearia solandri ‘Aurea’ Magnolia ‘March-till-Frost’ is living up to its name. Very dark coloured flowers indeed and much darker than last year’s. Magnolia ‘March-till-Frost’ Magnolia ‘March-till-Frost’ Huge seed…

…He also took some better pictures of the dark pink one. So 3 of the 5 ancient sasanquas have flowered in September and the fourth in the first days of…

…Baldick’s New Zealand hybrids, has a few flowers blown open at least two and a half months early. A dark colour though. Magnolia ‘Ians Red’ Magnolia ‘Suzanna van Veen’ is…

…of Camellia sasanqua ‘Hugh Evans’. He wondered if it was Camellia sasanqua ‘Plantation Pink’ but its too dark a pink in colour. The leaf and habit is also all wrong…

…seas The new water tanks in the garden are starting to fill. Tanks filling 2021 – CHW A very dark and threatening sea on a cold day. dark and threatening…

…dark green colours nicely with the nearby Aucuba japonica ‘Crotonifolia’. Abies grandis 2020 – CHW Blustery but less cold.Camellia x williamsii ‘Rosemary Williams’ has survived the gales. Camellia x williamsii…

Back to 3rd November. A very old dark form of Camellia sasanqua ‘Rosea’ with large flowers growing over a wall at the entrance to the house. Camellia sasanqua ‘Rosea’ Zanthoxylum…

…Clematis cirrhosa var. balerica 2018 – CHW More evergreen azaleas out on the Main Ride. A clump of my father’s hybrids which are unnamed and quite dark in colour but…

…dark for it to do so the trunk still ‘has a go’ at ground level. 2017 – CHW Another clump of Rhododendron grande seedlings are now full out by the…

…campanulata ‘Felix Jury’ with its first excellent flowers. What a dark colour and so many flowers on such a young plant. I saw this three years ago at a Savill…

…Magnolia ‘Felix Jury’ Magnolia ‘Felix Jury’ Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’ – rather windblown. Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’ Magnolia ‘Shirazz’ (Magnolia ‘Vulcan’ x Magnolia denudata) nearly full out and very dark against a dark sky….

…named varieties of Styrax japonicus emerging from Dutch nurseries. This one is ‘Pink Snowbell’ which has very dark leaves but is only really pink in bud. ‘Pink Snowbell’ ‘Pink Snowbell’…

…even more impressive than the flowers. On the top wall Dierama pulcherrimum in full flower. Some flowers are very dark and some have unusual and different striping. The dark flowers…

…it again. Along the way I discover a good Rhododendron sanguineum by the pond. Shy to flower but a very dark red indeed. Rhododendron sanguineum Rhododendron sanguineum Magnolia ‘Yellow Fever’…

…monkey puzzle is flowering for the first time. Is this a male of female? On the basis of the Wollemi seen yesterday the dark cones of flower should be male….

…‘Hot Flash’ in the walled garden. Magnolia ‘Hot Flash’ Magnolia ‘Hot Flash’ The very dark red Camellia ‘Night Rider’ which also grows at Burncoose. Here a huge bush near the…

…weather to come? 2022 – CHW A dark seedling form of Camellia saluenensis above the greenhouse is already shedding flowers. The old original by the ladies loo is about as…